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 　　All humans involved to find certain female traits attractive across cultures because they signal a potential mate's reproductive potential. Right, Actually, a new study finds that cultural norms can also play a big part at least when it comes to big feet.Once women give birth, their feet tend to grow larger, which means small feet are markers for youth and futility¹ and thus should be universally attractive. A previous study did find a wide spread small foot preference, but university of Washington anthropologist² Geoff Kushnick tested the hypothesis again among rural indonesians called the KaroBatak. when 159 men and women looked at a series of female figures, identical except for subtly different foot sizes. Surprisingly the KaroBatak rated the image with the largest feet, the most attractive , the work is in the journal human nature. Among the KaroBatak and other rural societies with low exposure to media. Large feet are signs of a woman's strength and ability to agricultural work. This cultural big for bias³ contradicts the notion of universal ideal's beauty. Attractiveness is not one-size-fits-all.